May 8, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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years. It has now been shown that the Glceos- 

 porium on grape and the Glceosporium on 

 apple are one and the same fungus, and this 

 fungus has by common consent been called 

 Glceosporium fructigenum Berk. In 1902 

 Clinton ('Bulletin Illinois Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station,' 69:193-211, III.) de- 

 scribed the perfect stage of this fungus and 

 placed it in the genus Gnomoniopsis estab- 

 lished by Miss Stoneman {Botanical Gazette, 

 26:71-74, 99-101, 113-114) in 1898, making 

 the name for the bitter-rot fungus Gnomoni- 

 opsis fructigena (Berk.) Clinton. Recent 

 studies have shown that the name Gnomoni- 

 opsis applied to the perfect forms of several 

 species of" Glceosporium, and Colletoirichum 

 by Miss Stoneman in 1898 was used by Ber- 

 lese in 1892 (' Icones Fungorum,' p. 93) for 

 a very different group of fungi. The genus 

 name Gnomoniopsis Stoneman is, therefore, 

 invalidated, and a new name must be given 

 to the fungi included until now under that 

 name. The writers propose the name Glom- 

 erella, in which the following species can up 

 to the present time be included: 



Glomerella cingulata (Atk.) Spaulding & v. 

 Schrenk. 



Glomerella piperatum (E. & E.) Spaulding 

 & V. Schrenk. 



Glomerella cinctum (B. & C.) Spaulding & 

 V. Schrenk. , 



Glomerella ruhicolum (E. & E.) Spaulding 

 & V. Schrenk. 



To the above the bitter-rot fungus must be 

 added. As the name Glceosporium rufomacu- 

 lans and Glceosporium fructigenum apply to 

 the same fungus, and as Glceosporium rufo- 

 maculans antedates Glceosporium fructigenum 

 the new name for the bitter-rot fungus becomes 

 Glomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spaulding 

 & von Schrenk, with the following synonyms : 



Glomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spaulding 

 & von Schrenk. 

 S'eptoria rufomaculans (Berk.) 1854. 

 Ascochyta rufomaculans (Berk.) 1860. 

 Glceosporium rufomaculans (Berk.) von 



Thiimen, 1879. 

 Glceosporium fructigenum (Berk.) 1856. 

 Glceosporium Iceticolor (Berk.) 1859. 



Glceosporium versicolor (Berk. & Curt.) 



1874. 

 Gnomoniopsis fructigena (Berk.) Clinton, 

 1902. 



Hermann von Schrenk, 

 Perley Spaulding. 

 U. S. Dept. of Ageicultuee. 

 Missouri Botanical Garden. 



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